The reluctant mating of Sony products with Apple iPods is something the
guys back at Sony Japan HQ will probably always kick themselves about.
The digital version of the Walkman never really
Friday, August 22, 2008 15:00
... 12 months - 43% are aiming for a Mac, nearly twice the value of Apple's closet competition (Dell: 22%, Sony : 8%, HP: 6%, Gateway: 3%). Three years ago, 46% planned on buying Dell laptop and only 17% ...
Friday, August 22, 2008 12:42
...ives giving an insane 1 GB sustained transfer rate. In a demo we saw at Computex, Intel loaded up Sony Vegas 8 with a 1 GB video file in less than five seconds. They also demoed a picture ...
Thursday, August 21, 2008 00:05
...ill undertake major efforts to merge code bases from its supporting partners (Symbian, Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, DoCoMo) into a new platform that will be able to run legacy applications. Gold th...
Thursday, July 24, 2008 17:04
...p, the Xbox 360 sold 186,000 units in the United States. The Wii sold 675,000 units in May, while Sony sold 208,700 PS3 consoles. Of course monthly sales figures only show one side of the coin....
Monday, July 14, 2008 15:10
...ates that first-gen Blu-ray players are on their way to drop below $300. Among the offers we spotted is Sony ’s BDP-S300 for $359.99 (down $40 as part of a closeout) and Panasonic’s DMP-BD30K for $449....
Monday, July 14, 2008 00:01
...enberg, Microsoft’s director of product
management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, told Gamasutra that the Sony
PlayStation 3 is the arch nemesis of the 360. He added that the 360
had more hard c...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 19:05
Now there's a surprise: Everyone says Sony 's servers are getting hammered, but I just sucked the entire update down through a high latency one-point-five Mbps satellite straw in all of 15 minutes. T
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 14:15
...acts alone. PhysX is the most common used physics API for console games (NovodeX and Meqon APIs) today, Sony has licensed PhysX SDK as the official physics engine for Playstation 3 console, Microsoft ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 16:02
London (England) - The president of Sony Computer Entertainment Kaz Hirai says that the company has "only really begun to scratch the surface" when it comes to the PS3, and is confident that it will
Thursday, May 08, 2008 13:29
...; We at TG Daily have first-hand experience with this problem as we capture video on both Final Cut and Sony Vegas-equipped computers. Video files captured in Final Cut sometimes can’t be used i...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 08:57
...gh in one of the biggest expanding markets in the battery industry: lithium-ion. With the massive Sony battery recall last year and ever-growing concerns about lithium-ion-powered devices catchi...
Friday, April 11, 2008 16:04
Sony has released details for the next firmware update to its handheld PSP system, bringing more functionality to the Playstation 3 "remote play" feature and also more customization for playback of
Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:56
...oms with only 40 comfortable chairs involved. But what about movie technology? We recently heard about Sony ’s 8.8 megapixel projectors, but for this article we were actually interested in the status ...
Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:44
Sony has issued a statement warning Playstation 3 users that a "small percentage" of online accounts may have been compromised due to an attack on the database that allowed a hacker to change user pa
Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:11
... week that now allows it to access enhanced Blu-ray Disc features, the first of which will be in select Sony Pictures titles coming out in the next few weeks....
Thursday, March 27, 2008 08:53
...ack: We still call GT5 Prologue a demo version and find it brave to sell this game for $40, but we give Sony props for the way it preps the PS3 title for launch. Today we heard that the music included...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 15:22
On February 26, Sharp and Sony signed a non-binding memorandum of intent to establish a joint venture for producing and selling large LCD panels and modules. This is an initial sign that the long-ter
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 08:02
Sony ’s robotic Aibo dog is just as effective as a
real dog in curing loneliness. According to a study conducted by the
St. Louis University, elderly patients in a nursing home became
attac
Thursday, February 28, 2008 16:28
GlobeandMail.com is running a story that it may have cost Sony $400 million to convince Warner that Blu-ray is the better HD format. The website says analysts are throwing around this number, but no
Monday, February 25, 2008 15:25
... – and rival Blu-ray's victory assured. However, after years of a standards war, the major question for Sony and the Blu-ray camp is whether a physical format for HD still has any relevance to consume...
Monday, February 25, 2008 08:52
All the console players are out in force at this week's Game Developers Conference, but Sony has arguably the most technologically innovative concept thanks to its Playstation Eye peripheral. San Fra
Thursday, February 21, 2008 17:30
Gaming consoles like Sony ’s PlayStation
3 have taken up too much of the spotlight and PC companies are taking
notice. At this year’s Game Developers
Conference, arch rivals like Intel and AMD are
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 02:28
...t our reports since the beginning of the format war to provide an overview of the events that led up to Sony ’s success and Toshiba’s loss. On the following pages, we are listing all important HD forma...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 09:21
...lier this month on the ISSCC website – offers some insight what we can expect to learn this year. Sony is apparently working on a 65 nm to 45 nm migration of its Cell Broadband Engine. Sony clai...
Monday, February 04, 2008 11:00
...only six to eight million Xbox 360 consoles will be sold this year, as much as 5.5 million units behind Sony 's platform. It also noted that the PS2 will still be going strong with a projecte...
Monday, February 04, 2008 05:56
...e when a person smiles, but how accurate are these features? At the PMA 08 show we tested out the Sony Cybershot’s “Smile Shutter” technology and found it to be quite finicky. ...
Saturday, February 02, 2008 01:20
In one of the most unexpected PSP announcements to date, Sony has created a partnership with MTV to create new UMD video discs, a format that has been considered dead for well over a year. Foster Cit
Thursday, January 24, 2008 15:30
... an electronic book reader and mobile phone. The Readius screen is similar to the Amazon Kindle or the Sony Reader in that it is actually tailored for reading, eliminating the eye strain of typical l...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:08
...us push to Blu-ray's existing lead and dominance with studio support. "This was a big win for Sony and Blu-ray will certainly increase its share of the market," says Gloria Barczak, an ...
Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:45
...its online titles to the Nintendo platform, including 3D Logic, Chicken Jockey, and Interactive Buddy. Sony has offered original game downloads on the Playstation 3 since its debut, and Microsot has ...
Thursday, January 17, 2008 09:51
Largely unknown developer United Coders has announced it will begin work on a PSP remake of the arcade classic Dragon's Lair, set to come out late this year. New York (NY) - Largely unknown dev
Friday, January 04, 2008 12:04
AP: Tokyo (Japan) - Sony is dropping its money-losing rear-projection TV business worldwide to focus on two flat panel technologies — liquid crystal display and organic light-emitting diode, the
Thursday, December 27, 2007 09:31
Sony has released the firmware v2.10a update for the Playstation 3, which improves the video feature set of the game console. The PSP also received an update and can now stream Internet radio content
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:15
...ent the patch from being released. Harmonix, the developer of Rock Band said it submitted the patch to Sony and received approval for it on December 4. However, the company says Activision, whi...
Thursday, December 13, 2007 09:47
...s to over six million in North America this year alone. That's more than twice the sales number of Sony 's PSP devices in the same time period. The impressive sales number means a DS has...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 06:58
...CRTs, LCD TVs still account for about 70% of the electricity used by household appliances, according to Sony executive deputy president Katsumi Ihara. Ihara noted that Sony 's desire to reduce the ...
Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:27
... 130,000 copies of Spider-Man 3 on Blu-ray Disc were sold in its first week, marking a new record for a Sony Pictures title. Hollywood (CA) - Over 130,000 copies of Spider-Man 3 on Blu-ray Disc were s...
Thursday, November 08, 2007 09:44
Even though Sony admitted failure with its Connect digital music store, the company's mobile phone division is mulling its own music platform. London (England) - Even though Sony admitted failure
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 08:00
...on 3 users have helped by contributing the console's power to the project when it is in idle mode. Sony says that over 670,000 PS3 consoles have registered to join the Folding@Home network, bring...
Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:56
...e first Metal Gear Solid title for the PS3. The series has been one of the biggest exclusives for Sony , with three titles made specifically for the PS2. In a statement, Konami said it "has...
Thursday, November 01, 2007 06:50
Opinion – Sony has really tried to improve the gaming experience with the PS3 through new and innovative technologies, but unfortunately this mindset has led to a decrease in the number of qual
Thursday, October 25, 2007 20:50
In a rare occurrence in the video game world, Sony has announced stores will begin selling the new Ratchet & Clank game a week ahead of the scheduled release date. Culver City (CA) - In a rare o
Friday, October 19, 2007 08:49
...ltiple platforms for a while, and has been available for the PS3 since March. The new addition to Sony 's console is the Game of the Year Edition, which packs in additional content. One...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:06
...e seems to be a sour taste left in the mouth of justice. This week marked the beginning and the end of Sony BMG, Arista Records LLC, Interscope Records, UMG Recordings, Capitol Records and Warner Bro...
Friday, October 05, 2007 15:37
...e entire apparatus could be constructed for $2. The idea is not so far fetched as it might seem. Sony introduced a prototype battery in August, 2007 which consumed the sugars in processed grape...
Thursday, October 04, 2007 13:25
Sony has announced that it is working on an ultra-thin TV using organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology. Tokyo (Japan) - Sony has announced that it is working on an ultra-thin TV using organic
Monday, October 01, 2007 10:41
Sony is reportedly in talks with Toshiba to sell its high-end semiconductor facilities to Toshiba, including its much touted Cell processor. Tokyo (Japan) - Sony is reportedly in talks with Toshiba t
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 08:17
...2006, three versions of the PS3 have been introduced. Only one is being manufactured today. Sony has scrapped the 20 GB and 60 GB models. The 80 GB model is currently priced at aroun...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 06:46
Sony has launched a website that allows users to check the backward compatibility of the 80 GB version of the PS3, which scraps the PS2 processor in favor of cheaper emulation. Foster City (CA) -
Friday, September 07, 2007 10:58
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